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This week marks the 20th anniversary of Sam Whitmore's Media Survey. No business can survive without the loyalty of its customers. We call them subscribers, and we thank every one of them. In this piece we revist the various looks of the SWMS web site over the years.

Where were you in 1981? Perhaps you were just a twinkle back then. Pat Thibodeau was a newspaper reporter in New Britain, Conn. Fifteen years later he moved to Computerworld, where he worked for more than 20 years. Now he reports for TechTarget’s HR and ERP verticals, and he believes he’s in the right place.

Industry analyst Rob Enderle starts his workday in the inbox. “I get a wave of pitches every day… a wave that breaks on me every morning,” Rob told us in a 23-minute audio interview. Can a 33-year veteran of the tech business get value from cold pitches?

Does Dion Hinchcliffe still write for ZDNet? Well sure… just not as much as he used to. Being a Dad to three-year-old twins has slowed him just a bit. “As they get older I can find more time to write,” the proud Papa told us last week. One can find Dion’s core work at Constellation Research, where he serves as VP and principal analyst.

Having been around since 1843, The Economist has a finely honed instinct for survival. The newspaper’s current editorial custodians, led by EIC Zanny Minton Beddoes, lately sense disturbing shifts in politics, economics and society. These shifts, The Economist believes, bode ill — perhaps for the newspaper itself.

Several years ago, I had a strong rapport going with an executive producer (EP) from a hot weekday financial market show on behalf of one of my F500 clients. The company’s stock was doing really well and, as a bonus, the EP happened to personally follow the company.

One might ask, "Why do I care about FAANG reporters when FAANGs aren't my clients?" Many of your clients compete, at least indirectly, with one of these behemoths. Health insurers once couldn't imagine Amazon as a competitor. So here are the beat reporters in the big edit shops, as of April 2018.

For the final installment of our six-part deep-dive, we're going by the numbers. Which are the publications that deliver the most coverage of the four major "horizontal" security markets -- AI, IoT, cloud and autonomous. Data culled from IT Database.

Automated video analysis is a branch of AI that involves a number of industry segments, including cloud and security. Here's a list of product and trend reporters who might fill the bill. List current as of Mar. 2018.

The reach-the-millennial phenomenon is a bit past peak but many clients still seek coverage. We assembled a list of millennially-minded reported, many in Tier 1 -- and we hereby share it with you. List current as of Mar. 2018.

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Journalists are leaving media brands every week. Read the fruits of 16 confidential interviews with journalists now working at tech brands or PR agencies, and five interviews with the executives who hired these journalists.